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[Tom Jennings]

On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Doc Shipley wrote:

>>>   I think it's called "figs" or "fig".
>> 
>> 
>> Do you mean DEC PHIGS by any chance?
>
>  No, but I had the name wrong.  It's "figlet".  :)

fig/xfig is a general-purpose drawing program; X application. Doesn't do
ASCII character drawing, which is not typical orthogonal line drawing. It's
specialized.

figlet does only this:

tomj at fiche:~ echo foo | figlet
   __
  / _| ___   ___ 
| |_ / _ \ / _ \ 
|  _| (_) | (_) |
|_|  \___/ \___/